CaptainJustin

With Cloudflare workers able to be called single digit ms away from customers on much of the planet now, I wonder how I can keep state as close to the workers / lambdas as possible.

What are the options we have for handling state as the edge? What do you use in your business or service?

Just watching Jeff Gerling's video on home automation and it struck me:

If we want to simplify accessing things with IP addresses we use DNS. If we want encryption at transit we use TLS. Is it time for the tech community to make having a domain name for home networks with proper TLS on everything more trivial? I've achieved something like this with Nginx-Ingress, LetsEncrypt, DNS and NAT but that's a little too involved for the average home. Is it time to "Dropbox" home DNS and TLS?

I recently saw that some Google employees are attempting to unionize and someone mentioned that Google's customers wish they could unionize.

That lead me to wonder: Could Google's customers form some sort of union and attempt to hold discussions with Google?

On the one hand I think it would in Google's interests to do everything to prevent having another party to have to negotiate with. On the other hand, if there was a union of customers and they occasionally demanded something everyone thinks is reasonable in the press, that may start something. Especially if Google caves on some of these issues.

What do you think?